Half Dollar what?? you may ask. Yeah, I am sure you never heard about them before. There is not much info if you type in Google too. This is why I decided to share my experience and make Half Dollar Hosting review.

There are one of many hosting providers who are trying to take piece of cake from big players like GoDaddy, InMotion, Siteground, HostGator….

Half Dollar Hosting provides domain registration, web hosting and a variety of server hosting options. The firm is located in England, but all services are in $USD.

So how did I ended with Half Dollar Hosting? I don’t use anymore their services for Kasa Reviews site, but I did for 2 years.

You may know or not know, but Kasa Reviews is relatively new site/blog.

I started it more than two years ago because of my love for WordPress and to express my opinions on various plugins and themes.

When choosing a hosting provider, there are many things to take into consideration. If you are new to this, like I was 2 years ago, then all those features might look confusing.

When starting, I didn’t have much money to invest. So naturally many prices from popular hosting providers for hosting plans seemed too high for me.

Why should I pay so much when I don’t even know if my site will have any success or readers. That is why I decided to go baby steps.

Invest little and if things start to roll I will invest in better services/products. Seems reasonable.

So I decided to go with HalfDollarHosting. I was surprised how much you get for the money you invest. It was very affordable.

NOTE: Half Dollar Hostong will be shuting down its services on August 31, 2018.

Half Dollar Hosting Review

Half Dollar Hosting Ltd. is United Kingdom-based hosting company if you are to believe information found while doing the basic searching.

But if you look at the footer of the site it says: Gundecha Industrial Complex, Akurli Road, Kandivali (East), Mumbai 400 101 India.

I don’t know if they are using resell hosting option from one of other hosting companies or they have their own resources.

If you think there is not much info about Half Dollar Hosting now, there was even less 2 years ago.

Their Twitter account seems to be forgotten, and there is no official Facebook or any other social page to confirm their legitimacy.

All that doesn’t sound encouraging for a potential customer.

There are few reviews found when searching, but I don’t believe any hosting reviews.

We all know how they are manipulated. If I check reviews about hosting providers, I only check for negative reviews. For them, I at least know they are genuine.

I decided to make a leap of faith and take a shot with Half Dollar Hosting service. Mostly because of affordable prices and because I was sick of going through all available hosting providers and making comparisons.

Half Dollar Hosting Review – Pricing Plans

Half Dollar Hosting offers personal hosting for free. Where is the catch with free plan? According to them: “There is no catch – if you could not afford it we will allow you to host your site with us for just one-time payment. We do not force ads, we do not “kill” your design – we ask only for footer slogan: Hosting provided by: HalfDollarHosting – Hosting For Everyone.”

Top-rated personal hosting plan is $1.89 per month with “unlimited everything.” Disk space, data transfer, a number of domains, FTP accounts and more.

Cloud VPS starts at $6.99 monthly with 512 MB of RAM, 5 GB of disk space and a single CPU. At the high end, 16 GB of RAM, 160 GB of disk space and 8 CPU’s is $159.99 per month.

Support

Ah, support. The main reason I decided to move all my important sites away from Half Dollar Hosting and the main reason I almost started to get grays in my late 20s.

In total, I had to open 54 tickets in 2 years. You can only contact support via ticket/email from your dashboard.

There is no chat (though there is one on site but I don’t know if works) or phone option so there is no quick solving problems. This is a big problem if your sites go down, and you need help ASAP.

It is an even greater problem taking into consideration that getting reply can take time from 4 hours to more than a day.

It seems there is only one person in charge for support. Every time I had opened a ticket, I was assigned to Christy Jacob.

Ah, when I remember our correspondences. What a pain in the ass was that. About 90% of the time I knew more than support.

Solutions given were far from helpful and in most cases, I had to do research and fix the problem by myself as Christy wasn’t much of help.

Example of support:

Here is one example of my case with support. This was a simple task. Imagine the horrors when some real problem occurs.

One time I wanted to pay for hosting. They offer Skrill and PayPal as payment methods. I paid via Skrill.

But billing system is broken and doesn’t recognize payments via Skrill. I was instructed, yes you guess by Christy, to contact billing admin.

But billing admin was nowhere to be found. My problem was solved after more than a week when he finally showed.

In the meantime, I was receiving warnings about overdue payment every day. I had to pay again via PayPal so that I don’t lose hosting and my sites go down.

Half Dollar Hosting PROS and CONS

Given how cheap they are, you will get a good hosting experience. Of course, if you’re looking for high-end features, this is not the company to choose.

Pros:

Low prices

Several plans available

Cons:

Terrible support

May not be right for larger sites

Half Dollar Hosting Review Summary

You can’t know how good hosting is unless you try. Half Dollar Hosting often leaves an impression as 1 or 2 people run it. For starting slowly or for hosting sites in development, it is not a bad choice.

There are many hosting providers like this one. They mostly have same problems but very affordable prices. I recommend staying away from it if you intend to do serious business with your website.

From the moment I changed hosting provider, I was reborn along with my sites in so many ways. And whatever you do, don’t trust most reviews found on the Internet.

Now over to you my dear readers. What are yourexperiences with hosting providers? Let me know in comments below!

Review Summary

For any serious business endeavors consider paying little more for proper hosting provider.

3.78Good3.78 out of 5

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Kasa

I love making websites, especially in WordPress. Hope reading content on this website you will find helpful tips, tutorials, comparisons, and product reviews which will help improve your site and skyrocket your business.

4 Comments

Halfdollarhosting has become a disaster Used to be great from 2013 to 2014, then changed hands in 2015 and starting increasing prices and their billing admin will go missing despite running a broken billing system that charges but does not apply the service you paid for. Avoid at all costs. Tom Binder